Posted by
forax on November 15, 2006 at 6:24 AM PST
This blog is an infrared echo to Matthias Ernst's last post
titled "How far is fidji".
- get rid of checked exceptions :
For me the problem is not checked/unchecked exception
but the fact that in the JDK, some places abuse of checked
exceptions like reflection, rmi etc.
I agree with matthias that it could be easy to add a keyword
to transform or not xhecked exception to runtime exception
but a checked exception like IOException is vital for a decent
programming language. You can't reuse a lib that performs
networking and get rid of checked exceptions.
- fill the void :
One proposed annotation of the JSR 305
is about that.
- add type inference for locals:
I totally agree with matthias, you don't have to declare
local variable if you won't. And i hope it will be included
into dolphin. C# has already that with the keyword var.
- add reliable closing of iterators in the for-each loop:
I prefer to use a JDK method for doing that, by example,
using the proposed for syntax by neal gafter.
- Resource literals:
The ressource section of the JSR 277 is not
a mecanism close to what matthias want.
So I don't know how far we are from Fidji but i know
that we are not so far from Java :)
